Eh. I agree to some extent, but there is a clear difference. First of all, the soldiers have some expectation that they're going to die. Secondly, the civilians aren't shooting at you. It's the same with police. If the police shoot someone who's aiming a gun at them - no big deal. They're just doing their job. Hell they might even be called a hero and/or given a medal in some situations. But if the police shoot someone who's entirely unarmed, it's fairly big news. They might lose their job over that one.
It's already a huge problem. My old Verizon LG VX9800 (aka 'The V') will last a week without charging. It's pretty old, but I would say it was pretty powerful for a phone of it's day - mobile web, full keyboard, stereo sound and the ability to download (or load from a miniSD) full songs and video and all that good stuff. It's no iPhone, but considering it's age (and network...) it's pretty good. Next up is a sidekick LX. It can maybe make it 20 hours on a full charge - _maybe_ up to around 30 if you have good service. And finally, the iPhone. I have yet to see that thing make it from the time I would wake up to the time I would go to sleep without a charge. From what I've seen (I don't have one - my girlfriend does), it needs charged twice a day.
Oh, I should also add that these all have the original battery in them. So the VX9800 is getting a week on a 5 year old battery, the sidekick can't hit a day on a 3 year old battery, and the iPhone can barely make 12 hours on a year old battery. I'd be quite scared to see how long an iPhone would last with a 5 year old battery (in my experience with an iPod, 5 years will nearly half the life of the battery.) I would however _love_ to see how long my VX9800 would have lasted fresh out of the box.
Yea, I love Chrome:) Well, I love it for Windows users. I'm on Linux myself, so I'm quite annoyed that there's no official build yet. As soon as there is, or whenever I get the time to try out the new dev build and it actually works well, I'm switching. Last time I tried it though it took up a few hundred megs of hard drive space and I don't think it even supported tabs yet. Also took hours to get the damn thing built.
Well, when users are told 'your iPod won't work anymore unless you click ok', the average user will just click ok. Sure, it's no problem for you and I, but less than a month after I went off to college (currently a sophomore) my parents' computer suddenly had safari as the default browser (which alone was a mess - the computer's 8 years old now, the latest safari absolutely _crawls_ on it. But then again, so does Firefox. And IE. Only browser with decent performance is Chrome). Also had quicktime as the default player for...well, pretty much anything that iTunes wasn't the default player for. The average user sees a box popup that says 'you need to update this', and it's for an app they use all the time, so they click 'ok'. And the apple updater by default checks quite frequently. Like I'm pretty sure it's at _least_ once a week. So if the problem has been out there for weeks...odds are a _lot_ of people have had it installed without having any idea what they were installing.
That's not at all what I'm saying. I'm just saying that if you're at a protest and someone starts smashing windows, it's alright for them to blast the jackass smashing the windows. I wasn't saying that they were completely justified in using this technology everywhere that they did. I was just saying that there were certainly some cases where they may have been.
I live about an hour from Pittsburgh, and from local news reports, friends that live there, twitter, and listening to the police radio, there were definitely some who were far from peaceful. Buildings in flames, local businesses with windows smashed out, etc. I will say that the Pittsburgh police have had plenty of problems in the past, but they definitely had cause to use such tactics during the G20 protests. But again, there is still a question in my mind of whether or not they used them _only_ where they had just cause.
Well, to be fair, you have a right to assemble _peacefully_. Quite a bit of the 'protesters' were smashing windows, burning, and otherwise destroying nearby private property. So it really all depends on who specifically they were using it on. Which personally I would bet was probably the wrong people, but I also have absolutely no evidence for that...
I noticed it seemed to imply that this was only coming to the Windows versions. Which is fine by me. Go ahead and torture the Windows users, just leave the Linux version how it is!
I'm pretty strongly opposed to the war on drugs as well...I'm even in the process of starting a chapter of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy at my campus...but you don't appear to have read even the summary. Sure, it can get the rats walking again - but the rats aren't in control of _when_ (or presumably _where_) they walk. I don't think that making paraplegics walk uncontrollably (and into traffic or off of a cliff or into a lake....) will be considered a legitimate medical use...
Now, if they can figure out some way to fix that problem, then sure, that'll possibly be a good way to get some stuff off of schedule I that shouldn't be there. But I think we'd have better luck focusing on Marijuana, which not only has legitimate medical uses, but is actually being used medically in more than a quarter of our states.
If you've got a decent level ham license (or still remember enough EE stuff to get one easily, which shouldn't be much of a problem), you could try D-STAR or setup something similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-STAR
While you can technically use D-STAR with only a technician license (which should cost you...I think $15 and an hour of your time), you would likely need a fairly high powered setup, and I think you can broadcast at higher power levels if you have a higher class of license. A directional antenna would be a good idea as well. Also, if you have a high license class you could possibly set up your own radio to internet gateway using a much lower frequency, which would give you a better range - though depending on where you are you may be better off with D-STAR. From what I've heard the coverage in the southern US is curently extremely good, but if you're in the north it may be a bit spotty - which is why I suggest a low frequency with _very_ big antennas. While it'd be very slow, you should theoretically be able to get it anywhere on the continent if your antenna farm is big enough - though I'm not entirely sure about the FCC rules, especially when it comes to using it for internet access.
Maybe it helps that we're a state school of 40,000 (and that's only counting undergrads) but Penn State University has full official support for Linux through both the residential computing services (where you go to get general tech support and get your network setup in your dorm) and through ITS (the guys that actually maintain everything). And if all that fails, there's always the campus LUG.
So yes, my school supports Linux. They support it very well. Though to be fair the residential computing services is kinda hit or miss, as that's mostly students so while they usually higher Comp Sci majors and generally people who know what they're doing, they still don't all use Linux, so it kinda depends on who you get. But ITS will always try to help if you send them an email, and as I said the LUG has solutions on their site for all the common problems.
Yea, I'm a current teen and my cell package is 250 texts a month. Needless to say I keep under that. But then, I also avoid actually _talking_ on the phone like the freakin' plague. If you text or email me, you'll get a reply usually within an hour. If you call me, depending on who you are, it may take _days_ for me to call you back. It's not that I have a problem with talking on the phone, I just don't like talking on the phone where other people can overhear my conversation - which as a teen is pretty much everywhere.
Because there is no such thing as 'a feet'. "Five trillionths of a foot" would be entirely acceptable though. In fact, that would work quite well, because you could look down at your shoe and say 'hmm, about five trillionths of that...' instead of having to try to compare it to that bone in your finger or the graphite in your pencil.
And yes, for those of you who don't get it, this post is entirely sarcastic.
Your phone will actually keep a text up on the screen that long? After a few minutes mine automatically saves it as a draft and closes it. So if the draft was saved, say, 5 minutes after the accident, then you were probably typing the text while driving.
I challenge you to show me a consumer available wireless that actually runs at 1 gigabit.
I challenge you to show me an internet connection or even a hard drive that can get anywhere near a gigabit of throughput.
When your options for your internet connection top out below 10mbps, does it matter that your LAN can only do 22? Or 144?
In the US, for most consumers, wired ethernet offers no real speed advantage over wifi. Sure, when you're transferring data between computers you may get an advantage over 802.11g, but if you have 802.11n you're probably going to be pretty close to the max speed of your hard drive - unless you have RAID or solid state, which very few people do. And hell, most people don't do much transferring of data between computers on their LAN either. So yea, for a small subset of the slashdot crowd, wired is far superior. For the rest of the world, there's really no point.
Well, perhaps it's the distro? Or the hardware. On my Dell Vostro 1000 with a 6 cell battery, I get at absolute maximum 4 hours of battery live on WinXP. On a slightly stipped-down Mandriva Linux I've managed to squeeze 6 hours of use out of it while watching movies. Of course, you could say this isn't an _entirely_ fair test as I was running both the system and the movie from a USB flash drive, but considering I did nothing special in the installer, just told it to install to the flash drive, I'd say it's fair - if you could install Windows to flash that easily I'd run it from one too. Plus with my full version of Mandriva 2009.1 using KDE4 I still get at least as much battery life as I get on XP - and it actually last longer than XP does for gaming (specifically World of Warcraft).
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Eh. I agree to some extent, but there is a clear difference. First of all, the soldiers have some expectation that they're going to die. Secondly, the civilians aren't shooting at you. It's the same with police. If the police shoot someone who's aiming a gun at them - no big deal. They're just doing their job. Hell they might even be called a hero and/or given a medal in some situations. But if the police shoot someone who's entirely unarmed, it's fairly big news. They might lose their job over that one.
Ah damnit, didn't notice until _just_ after I hit reply that I was replying to a comment not the story. Sorry.
It's already a huge problem. My old Verizon LG VX9800 (aka 'The V') will last a week without charging. It's pretty old, but I would say it was pretty powerful for a phone of it's day - mobile web, full keyboard, stereo sound and the ability to download (or load from a miniSD) full songs and video and all that good stuff. It's no iPhone, but considering it's age (and network...) it's pretty good. Next up is a sidekick LX. It can maybe make it 20 hours on a full charge - _maybe_ up to around 30 if you have good service. And finally, the iPhone. I have yet to see that thing make it from the time I would wake up to the time I would go to sleep without a charge. From what I've seen (I don't have one - my girlfriend does), it needs charged twice a day.
Oh, I should also add that these all have the original battery in them. So the VX9800 is getting a week on a 5 year old battery, the sidekick can't hit a day on a 3 year old battery, and the iPhone can barely make 12 hours on a year old battery. I'd be quite scared to see how long an iPhone would last with a 5 year old battery (in my experience with an iPod, 5 years will nearly half the life of the battery.) I would however _love_ to see how long my VX9800 would have lasted fresh out of the box.
Thanks. This makes life so much better. lol
Yea, I love Chrome :) Well, I love it for Windows users. I'm on Linux myself, so I'm quite annoyed that there's no official build yet. As soon as there is, or whenever I get the time to try out the new dev build and it actually works well, I'm switching. Last time I tried it though it took up a few hundred megs of hard drive space and I don't think it even supported tabs yet. Also took hours to get the damn thing built.
Well, when users are told 'your iPod won't work anymore unless you click ok', the average user will just click ok. Sure, it's no problem for you and I, but less than a month after I went off to college (currently a sophomore) my parents' computer suddenly had safari as the default browser (which alone was a mess - the computer's 8 years old now, the latest safari absolutely _crawls_ on it. But then again, so does Firefox. And IE. Only browser with decent performance is Chrome). Also had quicktime as the default player for...well, pretty much anything that iTunes wasn't the default player for. The average user sees a box popup that says 'you need to update this', and it's for an app they use all the time, so they click 'ok'. And the apple updater by default checks quite frequently. Like I'm pretty sure it's at _least_ once a week. So if the problem has been out there for weeks...odds are a _lot_ of people have had it installed without having any idea what they were installing.
Well, after 4 years of school you should be both a decent IT guy and a great bartender.
That's not at all what I'm saying. I'm just saying that if you're at a protest and someone starts smashing windows, it's alright for them to blast the jackass smashing the windows. I wasn't saying that they were completely justified in using this technology everywhere that they did. I was just saying that there were certainly some cases where they may have been.
I live about an hour from Pittsburgh, and from local news reports, friends that live there, twitter, and listening to the police radio, there were definitely some who were far from peaceful. Buildings in flames, local businesses with windows smashed out, etc. I will say that the Pittsburgh police have had plenty of problems in the past, but they definitely had cause to use such tactics during the G20 protests. But again, there is still a question in my mind of whether or not they used them _only_ where they had just cause.
Well, to be fair, you have a right to assemble _peacefully_. Quite a bit of the 'protesters' were smashing windows, burning, and otherwise destroying nearby private property. So it really all depends on who specifically they were using it on. Which personally I would bet was probably the wrong people, but I also have absolutely no evidence for that...
They're only _authorized_ to hold you for 30 days. In reality they'll occasionally hold people for _years_.
Good luck.
Target, Citibank, and Visa don't have the power to put me in prison for one....
I noticed it seemed to imply that this was only coming to the Windows versions. Which is fine by me. Go ahead and torture the Windows users, just leave the Linux version how it is!
I've been using 1600x1200 for a long time now....on a DELL CRT that's probably approaching 6 years old now.
I'm pretty strongly opposed to the war on drugs as well...I'm even in the process of starting a chapter of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy at my campus...but you don't appear to have read even the summary. Sure, it can get the rats walking again - but the rats aren't in control of _when_ (or presumably _where_) they walk. I don't think that making paraplegics walk uncontrollably (and into traffic or off of a cliff or into a lake....) will be considered a legitimate medical use...
Now, if they can figure out some way to fix that problem, then sure, that'll possibly be a good way to get some stuff off of schedule I that shouldn't be there. But I think we'd have better luck focusing on Marijuana, which not only has legitimate medical uses, but is actually being used medically in more than a quarter of our states.
If you've got a decent level ham license (or still remember enough EE stuff to get one easily, which shouldn't be much of a problem), you could try D-STAR or setup something similar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-STAR
While you can technically use D-STAR with only a technician license (which should cost you...I think $15 and an hour of your time), you would likely need a fairly high powered setup, and I think you can broadcast at higher power levels if you have a higher class of license. A directional antenna would be a good idea as well. Also, if you have a high license class you could possibly set up your own radio to internet gateway using a much lower frequency, which would give you a better range - though depending on where you are you may be better off with D-STAR. From what I've heard the coverage in the southern US is curently extremely good, but if you're in the north it may be a bit spotty - which is why I suggest a low frequency with _very_ big antennas. While it'd be very slow, you should theoretically be able to get it anywhere on the continent if your antenna farm is big enough - though I'm not entirely sure about the FCC rules, especially when it comes to using it for internet access.
Maybe it helps that we're a state school of 40,000 (and that's only counting undergrads) but Penn State University has full official support for Linux through both the residential computing services (where you go to get general tech support and get your network setup in your dorm) and through ITS (the guys that actually maintain everything). And if all that fails, there's always the campus LUG.
So yes, my school supports Linux. They support it very well. Though to be fair the residential computing services is kinda hit or miss, as that's mostly students so while they usually higher Comp Sci majors and generally people who know what they're doing, they still don't all use Linux, so it kinda depends on who you get. But ITS will always try to help if you send them an email, and as I said the LUG has solutions on their site for all the common problems.
I think the tinfoil mask will be a much better way of figuring out what ads to target at you....
Yea, I'm a current teen and my cell package is 250 texts a month. Needless to say I keep under that. But then, I also avoid actually _talking_ on the phone like the freakin' plague. If you text or email me, you'll get a reply usually within an hour. If you call me, depending on who you are, it may take _days_ for me to call you back. It's not that I have a problem with talking on the phone, I just don't like talking on the phone where other people can overhear my conversation - which as a teen is pretty much everywhere.
We can easily get rid of the mirrors - nuke 'em :)
I'm sure we'll see a small up tick when the new Star Trek movie hits the underground though.
Uhh, it already has. It was on Freenet (0.5) a few months ago.
Why not "five trillionths of a feet" then?
Because there is no such thing as 'a feet'. "Five trillionths of a foot" would be entirely acceptable though. In fact, that would work quite well, because you could look down at your shoe and say 'hmm, about five trillionths of that...' instead of having to try to compare it to that bone in your finger or the graphite in your pencil.
And yes, for those of you who don't get it, this post is entirely sarcastic.
Your phone will actually keep a text up on the screen that long? After a few minutes mine automatically saves it as a draft and closes it. So if the draft was saved, say, 5 minutes after the accident, then you were probably typing the text while driving.
I challenge you to show me a consumer available wireless that actually runs at 1 gigabit.
I challenge you to show me an internet connection or even a hard drive that can get anywhere near a gigabit of throughput.
When your options for your internet connection top out below 10mbps, does it matter that your LAN can only do 22? Or 144?
In the US, for most consumers, wired ethernet offers no real speed advantage over wifi. Sure, when you're transferring data between computers you may get an advantage over 802.11g, but if you have 802.11n you're probably going to be pretty close to the max speed of your hard drive - unless you have RAID or solid state, which very few people do. And hell, most people don't do much transferring of data between computers on their LAN either. So yea, for a small subset of the slashdot crowd, wired is far superior. For the rest of the world, there's really no point.
Well, perhaps it's the distro? Or the hardware. On my Dell Vostro 1000 with a 6 cell battery, I get at absolute maximum 4 hours of battery live on WinXP. On a slightly stipped-down Mandriva Linux I've managed to squeeze 6 hours of use out of it while watching movies. Of course, you could say this isn't an _entirely_ fair test as I was running both the system and the movie from a USB flash drive, but considering I did nothing special in the installer, just told it to install to the flash drive, I'd say it's fair - if you could install Windows to flash that easily I'd run it from one too. Plus with my full version of Mandriva 2009.1 using KDE4 I still get at least as much battery life as I get on XP - and it actually last longer than XP does for gaming (specifically World of Warcraft).